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Graduate What is the Landau pole and how does it relate to the coupling constant in QED?

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Undergrad This question may not come in the bracket of quantum mechanics but

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Graduate What is symmetry breaking in the Standard Model?

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Graduate The Double Slit Experiment: The weirdness of quantam physics

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Graduate Does the hup essentially represent the wall or curtain of the universe?

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Graduate Is uncertainty inherent in QM?

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Graduate Small=high mass at quantum level, but big=high mass at classical level. Why?

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Undergrad What actually happens when a photon strikes an atom?

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Graduate How do we arrive at Q = -1 from T3 and Y?

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Graduate 1/f noise at zero frequency or dc

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Graduate Demonstration of Dirac equation covariance

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Graduate Ampere's law with quantum mechanics

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Graduate Hong-Ou-Mandel Effect: Explaining the "-" Sign

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Graduate Can Slater Determinant Explain the Difference Between Bosons and Fermions?

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Graduate Do the wave equations need to be modified for obstacles?

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Undergrad Electromagnetic and strong force

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Undergrad Exploring Energy Levels and Electron Configurations in Atomic Models

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Graduate Does the Quantum Observer Effect Imply Consciousness Influences Reality?

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Graduate Do we really need physical/real waves to explain single particle interference?

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Graduate Uncertainty principle and information theory

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Graduate Is photon emission possible without electrons changing energy levels?

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Graduate Quantum Computing gate matricies

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Graduate UN-entanglement? is that possible?

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Graduate Dynamics in the heizenberg picture

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Graduate What is the true significance of Quantum Information Theory?

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Graduate Increase in amplitude of an electron wave

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Graduate Why Isn't the Strong Nuclear Force Unified with Electroweak in GUT Models?

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Graduate Do Virtual Particles Become Real Under the Weisenberg Uncertainty Principle?

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Graduate Quantum field theory and the renormalization group

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Graduate Thermionic emission at same temperature

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Graduate Must the State |O,ready> Be Orthogonal to |O,reads up> and |O,reads down>?

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Undergrad What Is the Uncertainty in the Gradient of My Linear Graph?

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Graduate Hydrogwn atom electron probability

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Graduate My bra-ket calcs seem to be going wrong - help

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Graduate Can Someone Please Explain Hermitian Conjugates To Me?

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Graduate Unraveling the Mystery of Quantum Eraser - Help Needed!

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Graduate What are the energy states of a hydrogen atom in a B field?

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Undergrad What are the differences between the two graphs of electron probability density?

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Graduate Exchange splitting of energy levels of a system?

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Graduate Where is the arrow of time if every decision is essentially instant?

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Graduate Deriving Stationary State Wave Functions for a Free Particle on a Ring

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Graduate QFT as pilot-wave theory of particle creation and destruction

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Graduate Questions about the delayed choice quantum erasure experiment

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Graduate Nonlocality and Compactified Dimensions

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Graduate Ok, suppose Macro-entanglement is possible

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Graduate The Mystery of Quantum Entanglement: Feynman's View on the Double Slit Pattern

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Graduate On Thought Experiments: Question

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Graduate Can Time Crystals Redefine Our Understanding of Time and Space?

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Graduate Understanding spin, spinors, and rotations

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Graduate Spherical harmonics and wavefunctions

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Graduate Zeeman effect - spin orbit coupling

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Graduate Quantum mechanics without wavefunctions

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Graduate Ref for single electron double slit experiments

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Graduate How does Perturbation theory account for interactions in QED?

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Graduate Wave function collapse with Young's double slits.

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Graduate Degenerate Perturbation Theory

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Undergrad What Are the Force Carriers in the Four Fundamental Forces of Physics?

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Undergrad Energy of light ( wave or particle)

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Undergrad Tried finding out what this symbol means, but to no avail did not find it. Help

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Graduate Derivative of an operator valued function

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Graduate Wave function is always in abstract space?

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Graduate Schrodinger Equation and wavefunctions

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Undergrad Energy levels hydrogenic atoms

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Undergrad Radial distribution function, concept.

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Graduate Understanding QFT vs QM: A Beginner's Guide to the Differences and Similarities

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Graduate What is the difference between interaction and measurement?

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Graduate Two Groups of Entangled Photons

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Graduate Can photon-photon interactions alone produce black body radiation?

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Graduate Quantum superposition and Vector Space

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Graduate Lagrangian vs Hamiltonian in QFT vs QM

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Undergrad Dose E=hn means quantization of energy?

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Graduate Charge Conjugation and Internal Symmetry Representations

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Graduate U(1), SU(2), SU(3) are symmetry of what?

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Graduate Can better sensors extract more info from old lens w/o limits?

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Graduate Any useful applications at all?

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Graduate What were the first applications of quantum mechanics to technology?

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Graduate I can't figure out if these are matrices or numbers

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Undergrad Do Slater's Rules and Hund's Rule Contradict Each Other?

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Graduate Evidence that electron is a point particle?

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Graduate A question in QFT book of Peskin&Schoeder?

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Graduate What is the direction of angular momentum vector of a photon?

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Graduate Can Quantum Probability Fields Mimic Wormhole Effects in Particle Transfer?

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Graduate Understanding Quantum Spin: A Layman's Guide to Particle Spin of 1/2

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Graduate Radial wave function in H atom

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Graduate Can a photon have energy of spin?

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Undergrad Electromagnetic radiations in bohr model

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Graduate Quantum Harmonic Oscillator Question

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Graduate Quantum Field as Physical Entity?

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Graduate Orchestration of Quantum Entanglement

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Graduate Magnitude of the scattering ampliudes in QFT

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Graduate The dipole interaction and fermions

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Graduate Is space quantized or is it seamless and smooth?

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Graduate Do photons gain mass in the presense of a black hole?

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Graduate A question regarding finite potential wells

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Graduate How photon entanglement works?

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Graduate Is there lighter particle than photon?

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Graduate /The probability density does not goto zero at the nodes if

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Graduate Question on the nature of spacetime

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Graduate Do gamma and X-ray wavelength photons also exist as collapse able wave fx's?

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